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Damon Bendel

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🚶‍♀️ A day in the life of a volunteer 💙

Out and about in Central London, sharing meditation and spreading a little peace, one flyer at a time. 🙏

#DayInTheLife #LondonVolunteers #Meditation #kadampabuddhism by @woundednomad

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5 days ago

Hiking the Seven Sisters with Shai🥾

#hike #walk #nature taken in Seven Sisters Cliffs by @woundednomad

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9 days ago

A little glimpse into volunteering at our free meditation class in Piccadilly. 🧘‍♀️✨

“When our mind is peaceful, we are happy, and when our mind is unpeaceful, we are unhappy.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Free meditation. Open to everyone. 💙

#MeditationLondon #FreeMeditation #Meditation #Mindfulness #kadampa taken in Piccadilly Circus by @woundednomad

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10 days ago

One week since Limousine dropped. 🖤

If it’s made it into your repeat playlist, we appreciate you more than you know.

Come scream it with us next week with The Dirty Skirts! See you there? x by @woundednomad

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3 months ago

More than a studio: a creative space built for storytellers, artists, and visionaries.
🎵 Songwriting
🎙️ Podcasts
🎬 ADR & Voice Overs
🎛️ Mixing & Mastering
Every sound matters. Every detail counts.
Step into the booth. Create something unforgettable. by @woundednomad

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5 months ago

Did you know?
Our video editing department absolutely cannot function without both plenty of SD memory card space and chocolate.
#kwenamusic #videoprep #sdcard by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Join Metro Villa as they prepare for their gig at RamFest!

Standard gig preparations often include but are not limited to deep analysis of popular Jack Black films and contemplation of practice room walls…

#kwenamusic #gigprep #musicscene by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Music and Me Part 6🎶

It was with @thecinematicrejects that I had my first experience with the full music production process from songwriting through recording, mixing, mastering, and release.

Back in 2019, we got a chance to have a song played on the radio.
The only problem was that none of us had ever written a song before, let alone recorded one professionally!

But we suddenly had a deadline, something I have since realised is one of the most essential elements to any creative endeavour.

So, we wrote our first song, ‘Shoebox Town,’ recorded it at @concept_records and had it played on a radio station that I now can’t remember the name of…

📸 @framethegig

#originalmusic #musicproduction #recording by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Music and Me Part 5 🎶

Almost immediately after leaving the hospital, about week after getting stabbed, @jesse_bettencourt, @jasongrantjefferys , and I started working together on what would become The Cinematic Rejects, my first band.

I remember them coming over to my house to learn new songs, and still being in a lot pain while trying to play guitar.

It was sometime in this period when I started writing in a journal for the first time which then led to trying out writing song lyrics for the first time.

It was only much later that I found the courage to try and write melody to go along with the words.

📸 @framethegig

#musician #writer by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Performing my favourite original song, “Energy”, with @lucasings_sa at @mm.musicacademy Open Stage!!

#originalmusic #acousticguitar #singer taken in Kwena Music Academy by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Music and Me Part 4 🎶

This might sound crazy, but getting stabbed and nearly dying was kind of a life-changing moment! Shocking, I know!

I remember having the uncomfortable realisation that if I had died, I would have been profoundly unhappy with my life and how I had lived it. But I didn’t know why I felt that way.

The PTSD from this experience caused a huge change in my mind, and I noticed that I was now having to wrestle with intrusive thoughts and emotions that hadn’t been there before.

To try and deal with this, I learned about and started practicing meditation, yoga, and journaling/writing, essential health tools that are now a massive part of how I define who I am.

Music and the quest to learn how to make it became a lifeline for me to cling to through all the darkness that followed.

Despite being one of the ‘worst’ experiences of my life, and although it’s been a back-and-forth journey, I think that it has ultimately changed my life for the better.

Being forced into deep self-reflection by that event provided a pathway into understanding who I was and who I want to be.

Unfortunately, self-hatred is a habit that comes a lot easier to me than self-love, but at least this event provided the insight into recognising that fact to begin with.

📸 @framethegig

#neardeathexperience #ptsd #healing by @woundednomad

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a year ago

Music and Me Part 3🎶

Immediately after graduating from university at the end of 2018, I decided that music was ultimately where my heart lay, and I re-dedicated myself to learning the guitar.

My workaround for feeling like I could never really be an artist was to just focus on the technical side of playing guitar.
I figured that if I couldn’t convince my brain that I could actually be good at this, I could at least trick my hands into learning how to play.

Around this time @jesse_bettencourt and I travelled around Thailand and Vietnam with 2 acoustic guitars and learned a whole bunch of songs together.

Shortly after that I got stabbed.

📸 @framethegig

#musician #guitar #neardeathexperience by @woundednomad

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a year ago